Perspectives for quantum interference with biomolecules and biomolecular clusters
- Author(s)
- Philipp Geyer, Ugur Sezer, Jonas Rodewald, Lukas Mairhofer, Nadine Dörre, Philipp Haslinger, Sandra Eibenberger, Christian Brand, Markus Arndt
- Abstract
Modern quantum optics encompasses a wide field of phenomena that are either related to the discrete quantum nature of light, the quantum wave nature of matter or light–matter interactions. We here discuss new perspectives for quantum optics with biological nanoparticles. We focus in particular on the prospects of matter-wave interferometry with amino acids, nucleotides, polypeptides or DNA strands. We motivate the challenge of preparing these objects in a 'biomimetic' environment and argue that hydrated molecular beam sources are promising tools for quantum-assisted metrology. The method exploits the high sensitivity of matter-wave interference fringes to dephasing and shifts in the presence of external perturbations to access and determine molecular properties
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- Journal
- Physica Scripta
- Volume
- 91
- No. of pages
- 12
- ISSN
- 0031-8949
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/91/6/063007
- Publication date
- 05-2016
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103025 Quantum mechanics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mathematical Physics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/47bb3c79-98c0-4ce8-9690-9fa2c84584ee